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In late February, many California music fans discovered in their mail a one-page form letter from the state's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, announcing that he was "pleased to enclose payment for your claim in the settlement of the Compact Disc Minimum Advertised Price Antitrust Litigation." Attached to the bottom of the form letter was a tear-off check made out to the aggrieved music fan from "CD MAP Antitrust Litigation" in Faribault, MN.

Back in January of 2002, we reportedhttp://www.stereophile.com/news/11252/index.html">reported; that loudspeaker manufacturer NHThttp://www.nhthifi.com">NHT; and DEQXhttp://www.deqx.com/">DEQX; (then known as ClarityEQ) had begun to co-develop a new line of active loudspeakers using DEQX's custom digital room">http://www.stereophile.com/news/10969/index.html">room correction technology. It's two years later, and NHT says it is finally ready to unveil the first speaker system incorporating digital signal processing (DSP) developed during the alliance.

Two new companies have formed in recent weeks to bring audiophile cable and connector products to market.

Does the SLP in the Cary">http://www.stereophile.com/amplificationreviews/204cary">Cary SLP-98P tube preamplifier's name stand for "sweet little preamplifier"? Art Dudley sets out to determine if Cary's latest version in the SLP preamp series lives up to the moniker.

Audiophiles may bemoan the convergence of computers and high-fidelity equipment, but it's a trend apparently as unstoppable as the earth's progression around the sun.

Contrary to popular assumption, music downloads and CD sales may reinforce each other. That's one reasonable interpretation of mid-February music industry statistics from the United Kingdom.

This week we have two John Atkinson speaker reviews from the February 2004 issue. First, JA gets his hands on the B&W">http://www.stereophile.com/loudspeakerreviews/204bw">B&W 705 loudspeaker, commenting, "When I heard about the company's new 700 series of speakers, based on the technology featured in their cost-no-object Nautilus series but priced to sell in the real world, I asked to review the $1500/pair 705."